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BCBA Mock Exam Questions and Answers |100% Pass B - Answer-A client under your supervision engages in frequent rumination that appears to have resulted in substantial weight loss. What is the first assessment task? a. Systematic manipulation of some variable b. Records review c. Nothing - the...

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BCBA Mock Exam Questions and
Answers |100% Pass

B - Answer✔✔-A client under your supervision engages in frequent rumination that appears to

have resulted in substantial weight loss. What is the first assessment task?


a. Systematic manipulation of some variable


b. Records review


c. Nothing - the behavior is not change worthy


d. Conduct an IQ test


C - Answer✔✔-You find that one of your clients has a substantial anxiety reaction to being in the

lunchroom. You posit that there is some kind of respondent conditioning process that has

caused this, and you wish to try respondent extinction. This would involve


a. Social extinction - ignore the child when he becomes anxious


b. Escape extinction - do not let the child escape from the lunchroom


c. Have the child frequently enter the lunchroom without any "traumatic" events occurring.


d. Have the child perform a task while in the lunchroom.


B - Answer✔✔-The philosophy of determinism, as applied to the analysis of behavior, assumes

that behavior is:


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a. subject to random occurrences.


b. caused by some event or combination of events.


c. a cause of other events.


d. determined by the will of the person.


B - Answer✔✔-You take an initial baseline on "in seat" behavior. You then implement a token

economy in which in seat behavior is reinforced with tokens. Your treatment team decides to

demonstrate the efficacy of the token system, and recommends an A-B-C-B reversal design.

Which of the following is an example of such a design?


a. In the 3rd phase, stop implementing the token system


b. In the 3rd phase, present tokens for out of seat behavior


c. Present the tokens for in seat behavior in another setting


d. Implement a schedule of less frequent tokens in phase 3


A - Answer✔✔-You are talking with a staff member about a client's behavior, and that staff tells

you that the client exhibited a tantrum the other day. You wish to set up a program, but you feel

that you will need consent to do it. What are the three elements needed?


a. capacity, informed, voluntariness


b. informed, voluntariness, older than 18 years old



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c. no coercion, cost/benefits, approval


d. informed, approval, legal age


B - Answer✔✔-Describe how a DRI schedule might be used to decrease the frequency of

walking around and bothering other workers at the work site.


a. Have the person earn a reinforcer contingent on the absence of bothering others


b. Provide a reinforcer contingent on working diligently and quietly at his seat


c. Move his seat away from others and make it somewhat "isolated."


d. Reinforce appropriate asking to visit others


C - Answer✔✔-You are having trouble getting Kenny on the van. Apparently, the action is

effortful, as he has to climb up the stairs, which gives him trouble. In fact, he has actually given

up even trying. Using behavioral momentum, how can this be treated?


a. Provide a reinforcer for getting on the van.


b. Prompt him briskly down the hall, and release him right before he reaches the steps of the

van. Then fade the release point backwards.


c. Give a reinforcer for some low effort actions then give the direction to "get on the van."


d. Give small reinforcers for just looking at the van, then slowly increase the size of the

reinforcer as he begins getting up to walk toward the van.




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B - Answer✔✔-You are working with a client who finds physical touch to be aversive. When the

person is off task, the program calls for you to give a warning by counting to "10"; at that point,

you gently touch him if he has not back on task. The touch remains until he returns to task.

Please note that being touched is aversive for this particular individual.


If the person gets back on task during the counting, this is an example of:


a. Escape


b. Avoidance


c. Positive reinforcement


d. Stimulus fading


A - Answer✔✔-You are working with a client who finds physical touch to be aversive. When the

person is off task, the program calls for you to give a warning by counting to "10"; at that point,

you gently touch him if he has not back on task. The touch remains until he returns to task.

Please note that being touched is aversive for this particular individual.


If the person gets back on task when he is touched, this is an example of:


a. Escape


b. Avoidance


c. Positive reinforcement


d. Negative punishment



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